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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 September 2019
      12 September 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108757195
      9781108485593
      9781108707398
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108757195
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.355kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Human Rights, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), provides an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to 'justice'. From the challenges of simultaneous translation to collaborating with colleagues from different legal traditions, legal practitioners were forced to scrutinise that which normally remains assumed in domestic law. By providing an account of this process, Genocide Never Sleeps not only provides a unique insight into the exceptional nature of the ad hoc, improvised ICTR and the day-to-day practice of international criminal justice, but also holds up for fresh inspection much that is naturalised and assumed in unexceptional, domestic legal processes.

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    ‘Overall, in full reverence to the old anthropological adage of making the familiar strange, Eltringham does a superb job of turning the site of international tribunals into an unfamiliar new terrain with fascinating insights to debate for anthropologists and legal scholars alike.’

    Senem Kaptan Source: Allegra Laboratory

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